Your favorite continuity error in the trilogy?

[Indy"Ale" Jones]

Theres a lot them out there. Spiders appearing and disappearing on the back of Indy. The hole in his bag disappearing after being burnt through by the stones and how did he fix the strap and put it back on after the struggle with Mola Ram? Whats your favorite?

[GlasgowChivas]

Theres a lot them out there. Spiders appearing and disappearing on the back of Indy. The hole in his bag disappearing after being burnt through by the stones and how did he fix the strap and put it back on after the struggle with Mola Ram? Whats your favorite?

Indy rolling of the tank tread onto the cannon barrel - and then his bag hooking onto it a moment later - which would have only been possible if he had went beyond the end of the barrel and then back again

[Michael24]

Yeah, I think the tank cannon barrel is my favorite.

And before anyone says it (because some still do), there is no disappearing blood on the Flying Wing's canopy. Marion was in the rear gun turret of the plane when the German Mechanic got chopped and the blood hit that canopy, not the cockpit canopy, which is connected to the turret by an interal crawlway. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've seen that listed as a continuity error on various websites.

The hole in his bag disappearing after being burnt through by the stones and how did he fix the strap and put it back on after the struggle with Mola Ram?

Oh, jeez, I never even noticed that before. Great, thanks; now I'll spot it everytime! :D

[Indy4fan]

Belloq swallowing the fly...(VHS version):up:

Also, how did Indy escape the falling tank in Crusade??

[Michael24]

Belloq swallowing the fly...(VHS version):up:

Also, how did Indy escape the falling tank in Crusade??

I think we're left to assume that he managed to roll off the back just as it went over and probably grabbed onto the edge of the cliff or the vines. We do see him fall and roll right up to the back just before it goes over.

Though I seem to recall that in the novelization, we actually rolls off the back before the edge, but then his feet get entangled in some chains, and the suspense is heightened as he's struggling to get free as he's pulled toward the edge of the cliff. That would have been exciting to see on film.

[Stoo]

I think we're left to assume that he managed to roll off the back just as it went over and probably grabbed onto the edge of the cliff or the vines.There is a photo from a deleted scene of him hanging onto the vines.
(metalinvader posted it recently but I can't remember which thread.)

Another continuity error is Marion's headpiece necklace that magically comes
off her neck just before Toht & Co. show up.:o

[SterankoII]

Though I seem to recall that in the novelization, we actually rolls off the back before the edge, but then his feet get entangled in some chains, and the suspense is heightened as he's struggling to get free as he's pulled toward the edge of the cliff. That would have been exciting to see on film.

Yeah, but they probably wanted to go for old gag of everybody thinking he's dead when he's standing right next to them!

[The_Raiders]

Belloq swallowing the fly...(VHS version):up:

Also, how did Indy escape the falling tank in Crusade??


Acually I think the fly was added in there for a joke. I watched it on DVD and saw the fly and wanted to look more closly, so me and a friend played it in slow motion and if you look close enough the "fly" just popd in outa no where on his chin, then disapears in his mouth ;)

[barranca]

Eating a Fly so as not to spoil a take, NOW thats professionalism !!

[Michael24]

Didn't Paul Freeman say in the documentary that Spielberg just edited the shot so that we didn't see the fly leave, making it appear that Belloq was such a bad guy that he'd eat a fly? LOL!!!

[The Man]

Indy's bag could be a worthy McGuffin in itself.

[isaac_z]

Another continuity error is Marion's headpiece necklace that magically comes
off her neck just before Toht & Co. show up.:o

i seem to remember a shot of her putting it down on the table. at the base of a lamp, maybe? i believe that shot comes after she holds both the money and the headpiece in her hands, then chooses the money.


my favorite, or most irksome, continuity error is the ever-changing background in the train scene during the prologue of LC. one moment they're in a forest, next a mountainous valley, then back to the forest, and out to the desert. nevermind that we see this huge expanse of desert in the first few shots, or that most of the background doesn't really seem Utah-esque, but it is just strange to see the backgrounds change not just between different moments in the action, but during dialog!

also, jock's voice in raiders. his first line sounds like he has an australian (though a bit forced) accent, and then the next is all new york. anyone else bugged by that?

[herr gruber]

Indy on the conveyor belt, getting nearer and further and nearer and further and nearer and further to the rock crusher.:D

[metalinvader]

There is a photo from a deleted scene of him hanging onto the vines.
(metalinvader posted it recently but I can't remember which thread.)



Indy in all his vine hanging glory....
http://raven.theraider.net/showthread.php?t=12848


how did he fix the strap and put it back on after the struggle with Mola Ram?In the novel,They did return to the palace after the whole rope bridge fiasco.So maybe he fixed it there...

[ReggieSnake]

Didn't Paul Freeman say in the documentary that Spielberg just edited the shot so that we didn't see the fly leave, making it appear that Belloq was such a bad guy that he'd eat a fly? LOL!!!This has already been posted(Bellog Swallows a Bug (http://raven.theraider.net/showthread.php?t=8078)), but Paul Freeman commented on this shot in an interview for theindyexperience.com:
http://www.theindyexperience.com/interviews/paul_freeman_interview.php

Indy in all his vine hanging glory....Thanks for the pic! I had never seen that one before.

[Attila the Professor]

also, jock's voice in raiders. his first line sounds like he has an australian (though a bit forced) accent, and then the next is all new york. anyone else bugged by that?

Agreed. That's my pick. Though, conceivably, he could have been doing a funny "unflappable British explorer" voice when he said "oh, that's just my pet snake Reggie!"

[Michael24]

i seem to remember a shot of her putting it down on the table. at the base of a lamp, maybe? i believe that shot comes after she holds both the money and the headpiece in her hands, then chooses the money.

Yeah, she removes the headpiece from her shirt, with the chain still around her neck, then there's the moment where the candle flickers. She looks at the headpiece oddly. In the next shot, she looks from the headpiece to the money, then lays the headpiece on the table. The chain is already off from around her neck when she lays it down.

For a long time, I thought this was created by a cut moment. My dad has always sworn that, when he saw it in the theater, she turned the headpiece again and made the candle flicker a second time, so I always thought maybe that was where she removed the chain from around her neck. But I've never seen any reference to such a deleted moment.

[Grave Robber]

I'd say the tank turret is my favorite. But more so with that, how when hanging there Indy was bombarded with dirt and rock from the tank edging into the cliff. And then when he gets back onto the tank to punch the Nazi, he's completely clean.

[sarah navarro]

In LC when hes at Brunwald castle he whips outside into the rain outside of one of the rooms,and when they show his whip wrapping around the cable it all the sudden clear and dry outside not a drop of rain in sight.Then when he breaks throught the window into his dads room its raining again.:p

[Gear]

Indy rolling of the tank tread onto the cannon barrel - and then his bag hooking onto it a moment later - which would have only been possible if he had went beyond the end of the barrel and then back again


What I dont understand is how he would have been killed by having the tank drive into the cliff 'wall'. I don't think it would have 'killed' him, maybe just scrape him up a bit, but when you think about it it doesn't seem like a deadly trap.

Can someone explain this to me?

[The_Raiders]

In LC when hes at Brunwald castle he whips outside into the rain outside of one of the rooms,and when they show his whip wrapping around the cable it all the sudden clear and dry outside not a drop of rain in sight.Then when he breaks throught the window into his dads room its raining again.:p


Yeah I threw in LC with a friend and he said the same exact thing.






What I dont understand is how he would have been killed by having the tank drive into the cliff 'wall'. I don't think it would have 'killed' him, maybe just scrape him up a bit, but when you think about it it doesn't seem like a deadly trap.

Can someone explain this to me?

Your right. He would have probablt just'v been dragged across the rock wall, get some cuts, and continue to be wacked in the hands by Vogel, and as far as his satchel bags strap being around the gun barrel, when you see him climb on top of the tank the strapis still around the barrel, then he's magicly on the tanks with his bag still :confused: :dead:

[Michael24]

The thing about the cliff wall. It protrudes out up ahead of the tank. Hanging from the barrel, he would have hit the protrusion, which probably would have done some damage to the barrel and either broke it backwards, smashing him against the side of the tank, or breaking the barrel enough that he slips off and faces the chance of getting caught up on the tread wheels, either being crushed further into the wall or mangled by the wheels.

In any event, I'm sure it wouldn't have been a pretty sight if Indy had hit the cliff wall. :)

[NoCamels]

My favorite is that Belloq takes Indy's pistol and whip in the beginning of Raiders- Indy doesn't have them in the whole chase scene but he's got them later at home. I like to think maybe Belloq mailed them to him with a mocking note.

Also, the horsey ones are Indy's briefly got spurs on in the Raiders truck chase and in Last Crusade there's a brief shot of a horse with what appears to be a regular American western saddle on when the Nazi convoy stops.

If you wanted to be really nitpicky, when Indy jumps from the horse to the tank, you can just barely tell he's got a stunt saddle with some kind of foothold to jump from and that the horse he's riding in Petra is not the horse he's riding in the tank chase. But I can't tell you how many times I've watched the tank chase in slow motion and zoomed in to figure that out! (I'm making Indy's saddle in miniature.)

[Michael24]

My favorite is that Belloq takes Indy's pistol and whip in the beginning of Raiders- Indy doesn't have them in the whole chase scene but he's got them later at home. I like to think maybe Belloq mailed them to him with a mocking note.

Haha!! That would be funny. But I always figured he just bought news ones once he returned, or had some extras anyway.

Also, the horsey ones are Indy's briefly got spurs on in the Raiders truck chase and in Last Crusade there's a brief shot of a horse with what appears to be a regular American western saddle on when the Nazi convoy stops.

Indy's wearing spurs? You mean, you can actually see spurs on his feet at one point? At what moment during the chase?

But how the heck can you tell the different between an American saddle and a non-American saddle?

And I just remembered another goof, when the truck is speeding up on Belloq's car, you can see the back of the seat that Indy's stunt double is sitting on as he hangs onto the wheel well. I'm not sure why didn't think to have the double pull his jacket over the back of the seat to hide it, and I wish they had erased it on the DVD like they did with the cobra's reflection.

If you wanted to be really nitpicky, when Indy jumps from the horse to the tank, you can just barely tell he's got a stunt saddle with some kind of foothold to jump from and that the horse he's riding in Petra is not the horse he's riding in the tank chase. But I can't tell you how many times I've watched the tank chase in slow motion and zoomed in to figure that out! (I'm making Indy's saddle in miniature.)

I never noticed that until Vic Armstrong pointed it out in a documentary. Now I see it all the time, though it doesn't really bug me.

[Gear]

The thing about the cliff wall. It protrudes out up ahead of the tank. Hanging from the barrel, he would have hit the protrusion, which probably would have done some damage to the barrel and either broke it backwards, smashing him against the side of the tank, or breaking the barrel enough that he slips off and faces the chance of getting caught up on the tread wheels, either being crushed further into the wall or mangled by the wheels.

In any event, I'm sure it wouldn't have been a pretty sight if Indy had hit the cliff wall. :)


Hmm. First, thanks for answering my question guys.

I never thought it would be pleasant to endure; he would gat all messed up yo. :p :rolleyes:

I simply didn't understand why Indy seemed so horrified.

[The_Raiders]

I also noticed when ever Indy gets caught in a trap, right when it's about to send him to his doom, it seems to reset itself. Like when his head was about to be crushed in the rock smasher it'd get right where his hat would start touching the roller then it'd show short round goin to get the maharaja, and then back to indy and he'd be a couple inches away from the roller, same with the spike chamber and in RAidERS when satipo left and that door was closing.

[Gear]

Yes, I've noticed that too.

Simply movie dramatics, my friend.

[Tron7960]

Maybe this doesn't count, as it's not self contained in one movie but the scene in TOD where Indy reaches for his pistol only to find an empty holster is a great moment. It just feels wrong to me given that it's set before the Cairo scene. Indy's too self assured during that moment in Raider's if it had previously been unsuccessful. Seems like a continuity issue to me.

[Nurhachi1991]

I would have to say when the Coranado exploded and sunk at the begining of Last Crusade

that there was a life saver just floating by after a whole ship explodes it would have been burnt and indy would have drown


and how the heck did indy swim to shore?

[The_Raiders]

What about in TOD when Willie tried to pushe the statue in her room, Indy already pushed the other one that led into the temple, so there was no need for Willie to try, you can tell by the look on her face she didn't want too. And also when Indy and Willie fell on the awining from club Obi Wan, how did short round know they were gonna fall there so he could pick'em up :confused: :dead:

[Nurhachi1991]

that was pretty hot when willie was pushing the statue. jk



yeah how did short round know where to go........





and why in the heck would Lao Che have a real antidote???? he could of killed indy by putting anti freeze or something in the vial or not tell him he was posioned and let hime die

[Michael24]

What about in TOD when Willie tried to pushe the statue in her room, Indy already pushed the other one that led into the temple, so there was no need for Willie to try, you can tell by the look on her face she didn't want too.

I think Willie was just curious to see if the second statue would reveal a tunnel. Don't really see how that's a continuity error or anything.

that there was a life saver just floating by after a whole ship explodes it would have been burnt and indy would have drown

and how the heck did indy swim to shore?

The life saver was likely just blown from the ship by the shockwave. As for Indy swimming back, I believe the title card said "Portuguese Coast," so perhaps they're just not very far from shore. I can't imagine Indy stayed hidden on that ship long enough for it to get very far out to sea before he was caught. I think, with the life saver, he could have easily made it back to shore if he was no more than a few miles off the coast.

[Nurhachi1991]

yeah but that storm was fierce


everyone on the ship could barley stand


that would be a rough trip for indy on that life saver you think it would get knocked away from him by a wave

[metalinvader]

The life saver was likely just blown from the ship by the shockwave. As for Indy swimming back, I believe the title card said "Portuguese Coast," so perhaps they're just not very far from shore. I can't imagine Indy stayed hidden on that ship long enough for it to get very far out to sea before he was caught. I think, with the life saver, he could have easily made it back to shore if he was no more than a few miles off the coast.


In the novel he waves down a passing ship...

That would suck having to swim all that way in a wet leather jacket.:p

[Nurhachi1991]

man i got to read the novels...... things make sense!


yeah i knew no one could swim that far in a storm not even beowulf

[UltimateManGod]

And also when Indy and Willie fell on the awining from club Obi Wan, how did short round know they were gonna fall there so he could pick'em up :confused: :dead:

Well, he could have waiting in a spot where he could see Indy fall out the window. Then he just drives up to where they're going to land. I wouldn't consider it a continuity error though.

[The_Raiders]

Well, he could have waiting in a spot where he could see Indy fall out the window. Then he just drives up to where they're going to land. I wouldn't consider it a continuity error though.


Well, the part that confueses me is how did he know they were going to fall out the window? I guess it's not an error, i was just wondering about it ;)

[Nurhachi1991]

or when indy whips the sword out of the two thugges hands and chases them his whip is dangling but when he reaches the bridge his whip is coiled up neatly when he had no time to do that

[The_Raiders]

Yeah I noticed that too, in several scenes acually. And in some scens from the movie he'll head out to do something wothout his gear and in the very next scene, everythings there, as far as RAIDERS though, when he gets his whip real quik from inder the door after Satipo ran off you can see him coil it up, then he runs into Satipos body of cousrse ;) Oh yeah this sin't an error, but since I mentoned noticing things, has anyone ever noticed acertain scream in every Lucas film, it's in every star wars and Indy movie, you'll know it when you hear it. ANd it's in several other movies as well.

[Nurhachi1991]

how did Satipo die anyway? wasnt forrestals body with the spikes already out? where there more than one light trap

[UltimateManGod]

how did Satipo die anyway? wasnt forrestals body with the spikes already out? where there more than one light trap

I believe spikes came out from both walls, not just one. But there was just one light trap. I'm not 100% sure though.

[Michael24]

Sapito most likely just encountered another spike trap of some kind.

[Nurhachi1991]

oh i always thought there was just one light trap. wouldnt the other spike trap that killed Satipo affect Indy and Satipos trip into the temple in the first place because it was prety narrow in there

[Indy"Ale" Jones]

[QUOTE= has anyone ever noticed acertain scream in every Lucas film, it's in every star wars and Indy movie, you'll know it when you hear it. ANd it's in several other movies as well.[/QUOTE]

Its a stock sound effect called "The Wilhelm" from an old western movie.

[Burke]

Its a stock sound effect called "The Wilhelm" from an old western movie.

Yep, love it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream

[Michael24]

I bet it's destined to be some ill-fated Russian who utters the Wilhelm in KOTCS. :D

Ben Burtt even does a Wilhelm impersonation himself during his cameo in Return of the Jedi, as the Imperial officer who gets knocked over the railing by Han in the shield generator bunker. :D

[Burke]

I bet it's destined to be some ill-fated Russian who utters the Wilhelm in KOTCS. :D

Ben Burtt even does a Wilhelm impersonation himself during his cameo in Return of the Jedi, as the Imperial officer who gets knocked over the railing by Han in the shield generator bunker. :D

The giant flying sawblades would make for a good use of the Wilhelm, or more likely, a Russian jeep flying off a 1,000 foot cliff.

[NoCamels]

Indy's wearing spurs? You mean, you can actually see spurs on his feet at one point? At what moment during the chase?

But how the heck can you tell the different between an American saddle and a non-American saddle?

Indy's spurs in Raiders are thin English spurs, not big cowboy spurs, so they are hard to see, but it's right when Indy is riding across the ridge, just before he rides downhill to jump on the truck. There is a shot looking down past the horse at the truck and if you look closely he is wearing short silver spurs. My computer isn't letting me play DVDs right now, otherwise I'd give you a screen capture.

I meant a regular western saddle when I said American saddle. You might be surprised at the variety in saddles between countries, as often they were designed for that country's specific types of horses and specific kinds of work. Example: American cowboys (chunky Quarter horses and Western saddles for roping cows) versus Olympic show jumpers (usually lean European horses and English saddles for jumping fences). Saddles 101:
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee96/AtomicStables/Saddles.jpg
Left to right: Western (American) saddle, Australian stock saddle, English saddle. All three types are available at my local American tack shop, the styles just originated in different countries. These photos are of miniature saddles I own.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee96/AtomicStables/Arabiansaddles.jpg
Fancy Arabian saddles- the red one is similar to (but much fancier than) the one Indy's white horse has in Raiders. The other two are Arabian/Bedouin show saddles. If you'd like to see more pictures of saddles from other countries, I suggest taking a look at http://www.aeon-systems.net/narrawin/gearcollect.html

And, back on topic. Here's a screen capture of the stunt saddle from Last Crusade. I've circled the foothold in white, because it's hard to see. It's that dark blob in the center of the oval. When he's riding, it's at knee level.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee96/AtomicStables/Indyjump.jpg

[Michael24]

Interested. I don't think I've ever noticed any difference in saddles before, even when watching foreign films with them. Thanks for the info. :)

[Indy"Ale" Jones]

Another thing that has always bothered me, thats not really a continuity error but more of a law of physics thing is the water in ToD. There are vast chasms with flowing lava and all kinds of nooks and crannies that the water would have ended up filling. So unless they were heading straight down at an unbelieveable incline I don't think that much water would have made it to them when they ran out of the tunnel and on to the side of the cliff. Anyone else agree with this?

[Indy_Chic]

I love how in Temple of Doom where Indy is hanging onto the collapsed rope bridge and the badies are firing arrows at him you can actually see some of the arrows bounce off Indy's back. LOL! Indy is so tough I tell ya!! ;)

[Nurhachi1991]

I love how in Temple of Doom where Indy is hanging onto the collapsed rope bridge and the badies are firing arrows at him you can actually see some of the arrows bounce off Indy's back. LOL! Indy is so tough I tell ya!! ;)

lol yeah i noticed that as well

[Stoo]

If you wanted to be really nitpicky, when Indy jumps from the horse to the tank, you can just barely tell he's got a stunt saddle with some kind of foothold to jump from and that the horse he's riding in Petra is not the horse he's riding in the tank chase. But I can't tell you how many times I've watched the tank chase in slow motion and zoomed in to figure that out! (I'm making Indy's saddle in miniature.)Good Stuff, NoCamels! I enjoyed your detailed post on the saddles & spurs and thanks for pin-pointing
the foothold. Nitty-gritty details. Gotta love it!:whip:

What is the tell-tale clue that distinguishes the two horses? I am curious since the tank-chase horse,
Hurricane, is apparently the same one that S.P.Flanery rode in "Curse of the Jackal" during the pursuit
across the Mexican border. (You probably know this already...)

Another terrible continuity problem is the motorboat/propellor scene from "Crusade".
The cliffhanger supsense suffers from the editing. I guess they didn't have much to work with!

Not a continuity error but how about the ejected telephone pole sticking out during the Cairo truck crash?

[Indy"Ale" Jones]

Actually my favorite continuity error in the trilogy is the circus train scene at the beginning of LC. Watch the landscape and how often it changes, especially when Indy goes into the magic car and they are in the mountains and then moments later when he escapes and runs home it is absolutely flat with no mountains in sight anywhere.

[ReggieSnake]

and why in the heck would Lao Che have a real antidote???? he could of killed indy by putting anti freeze or something in the vial or not tell him he was posioned and let hime dieLao Che probably enjoyed the irony of having Indy die with the real antidote right under his nose. His son seemed to be enjoying it too, until he got the shish-kabob through the chest of course...:dead:

[herr gruber]

His son seemed to be enjoying it too, until he got the shish-kabob through the chest of course...:dead:

His last thoughts were 'I don't even like kebabs'.

[Michael24]

I love how in Temple of Doom where Indy is hanging onto the collapsed rope bridge and the badies are firing arrows at him you can actually see some of the arrows bounce off Indy's back. LOL! Indy is so tough I tell ya!! ;)

I've never been able to see that. At best, just some arrows hitting the rock cliffside and bouncing off, but I've never been able to see whether or not any of them actually bounce off of Indy.

Though it wouldn't surprise me. Indy has survived being dragged behind a speeding truck, outrunning a giant boulder, dodging giant steel blades, and surviving the evilfying affects of the Blood of Kali, so I would think he'd be tough enough that arrows could just bounce off of him like Superman. :D

[Burke]

Another thing that has always bothered me, thats not really a continuity error but more of a law of physics thing is the water in ToD. There are vast chasms with flowing lava and all kinds of nooks and crannies that the water would have ended up filling. So unless they were heading straight down at an unbelieveable incline I don't think that much water would have made it to them when they ran out of the tunnel and on to the side of the cliff. Anyone else agree with this?

Hah, yeah. I watched ToD the other day and thought of that right away.

[Indy_Chic]

Though it wouldn't surprise me. Indy has survived being dragged behind a speeding truck, outrunning a giant boulder, dodging giant steel blades, and surviving the evilfying affects of the Blood of Kali, so I would think he'd be tough enough that arrows could just bounce off of him like Superman. :D


Yeah! This must mean the arrows bouncing off him is not a mistake after all! :whip:

[Nurhachi1991]

Yeah! This must mean the arrows bouncing off him is not a mistake after all! :whip:







Wow Indy puts Chuck Norris to shame......

[NoCamels]

What is the tell-tale clue that distinguishes the two horses? I am curious since the tank-chase horse,
Hurricane, is apparently the same one that S.P.Flanery rode in "Curse of the Jackal" during the pursuit
across the Mexican border. (You probably know this already...)

Actually, I didn't know that! So I just watched that episode and the end of Last Crusade again, and I do think you're right.

Indy's horse in Petra is an Arabian or Arabian-type breed of horse. It has much finer features and a dished profile to it's face. In the tank chase, the horse has a straighter profile to it's nose and is definetly not an Arabian, although I have no clue what breed it is. This was my original reasoning as to why it's two different horses. (Plus, there's no need to truck a stunt horse to Jordan. A solid black horse is fairly easy to match, and most viewers won't notice.)

As I was double-checking, though, I noticed that the tank chase horse has a light spot on it's lower lip, as if it has a white marking on it's nose that has been dyed black but they couldn't dye the horse's lip. (I also noticed for the first time that when Indy and Sallah are arguing about the camels where there is briefly a white spot on the horse's nose that they forgot to color.)

Then I watched "Curse of the Jackal" to compare. Indy's horse has a white blaze on it's face that extends down to it's lower lip. It has a similar build and the same wavy mane and tail. Dyeing that blaze black would be very easy and would give you the same problem with having to leave the lip white. So I'm pretty sure that it is the same horse, Hurricane. (Thanks for pointing that out! :up: )

Another continuity error in the tank chase that I just figured out: Indy originally steals two black horses, one dark brown, and one bay, and Sallah has a chestnut horse with a star. In Petra, Indy has a black horse, Sallah has a chestnut with a stripe, Henry has a chestnut with a star, and Marcus has a black or dark brown horse. (So I guess Henry got Sallah's horse, they lost one horse, and one changed color?)

(And yes, I was the kid who asked for a horse/riding lessons/toy horses for every birthday and Christmas....:p I still can't watch movies without critiquing the actor's riding ability. Harrison Ford appears to be a pretty good rider, although the movie cuts fast enough that it's hard to tell for sure. He's definetly better than Mel Gibson, but I'm not sure how close he is to Viggo Mortensen ;) )

[Kooshmeister]

The magic hat of the German soldier who gets knocked onto the tank treads in Last Crusade is good. When he first falls onto the treads, his hat falls on the back of the tank behind him, but then when it cuts to him going over, his hat has teleported and is now on the tread in front of him and precedes him in getting smushed.

Also, Gobler's goggles during the truck chase in Raiders. In closeups they're down over his eyes. In a lot of the long shots, however, they're up on his hat. This also applies to his two passengers.

[bonoferox]

The disappearance / reappearance of Willie's shoes after the minecar and onto the bridge. Or the number times Indy's whip seems to coil itself back onto its holster by itself.

[Forbidden Eye]

Mine's gotta be the snake's reflection on the Raiders VHS.

Belloq eating a fly is a close 2nd. :up:

[oki9Sedo]

Belloq eating a fly is a close 2nd. :up:

Well, that wasn't a continuity error. He ate the fly.

[Ignatius Stone]

Agreed. That's my pick. Though, conceivably, he could have been doing a funny "unflappable British explorer" voice when he said "oh, that's just my pet snake Reggie!"


Interestingly, the "Creepy Crawlies" doc on the newest Temple of Doom DVD contains that clip from Raiders, with an alternate dialogue dub for that very line. In that clip, both Jock's lines are delivered in an American accent.

[Attila the Professor]

how did Satipo die anyway? wasnt forrestals body with the spikes already out? where there more than one light trap

I think there may be one on each side. If you're coming into the temple, Forrestal got the one on the left, and Sapito the one on the right. I think Infernal Machine rendered it with spikes on each side, though, in that case, Forrestal's bones had ended up on the floor by '47. Unclear. Sapito does seem to have been on Indy's left, though, when he was escaping.

[Indy's brother]

Or the number times Indy's whip seems to coil itself back onto its holster by itself.

Yeah, my favorite continuity screw up is in the final version of the "cairo swordsman" where his whip goes from the right hand to the left hand, and the his gun magically appears in his right hand. It almost looks like he's switching the stuff in his hands offscreen, but once you know how the final cut was pieced together (from the deleted scene), you know the truth. It's my favorite because of how well it was executed:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAoJrNbgUoI&feature=related

[Raider Indy]

Indy takes a dirt shower while on the side of the tank in LC...yet when he comes back swinging at Vogel all of the aforementioned dirt is gone.

[AndyLGR]

In TOD Indy encounters the 2 Thuggee guards and we get the ROTLA gun gag , minus the gun of course, so instead he fights them and picks up a sword off the floor and chases them away. I always wondered where did the sword come from as the sword went over the cliff when he whipped it out of the guards hand :whip:

[Coronado]

Indy rolling of the tank tread onto the cannon barrel - and then his bag hooking onto it a moment later - which would have only been possible if he had went beyond the end of the barrel and then back again

Seconded! That's my all-time favourite too. :gun:

Oh yeah this sin't an error, but since I mentoned noticing things, has anyone ever noticed acertain scream in every Lucas film, it's in every star wars and Indy movie, you'll know it when you hear it. ANd it's in several other movies as well.

Check out this awesome YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio

-Coronado